Herding Cats

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). the beginning of a project, comparatively little is known about the product or work results, and so estimates are subject to large uncertainty.

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Technical Review 2005 Estimate Software Review 28

Herding Cats

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

The Cone is a project management framework describing the uncertainty aspects of estimates (cost and schedule) and other project attributes (cost, schedule, and technical performance parameters). Estimates are needed but are subject to large level of uncertainty. The BLUE bars are the probabilistic ranges of the current estimate date.

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Technical Review Estimate 2005 Software Review 28

Herding Cats

MARCH 11, 2018

IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering, 1 (1984): 4-21. By the way, the pure conjecture that agile enables late changing requirements to not have a significant impact on the cost and schedule of the development project is completely lacking any testable evidence outside of personal anecdotes of agile advocates.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 17, 2020

When teams estimate work, hearing an initial estimate is likely to “anchor” further estimates. So when people are asked how much time something will take, and they are offered an initial estimate of 20 days, their own estimates will gravitate towards that number. . Examples in the workplace. Standish Group, 2015).

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MPUG

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 1 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG training series, part one, Understanding and Incorporating Agile Project Management. It’s not all or nothing.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

The presentation " Quantifying the Impact of Agile Practices ," Larry MacCherone at the RallyOn 2013 Conference, presents some results on estimating impacts. The chart below shows 4 estimating types, including No Estimates, the sample sizes for each type and the components that make up the estimating types.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 16, 2019

Agile Project Management (#APM). Agile Software Development (#ASD). Integrating Agile and Earned Value Management (#AEVM). Agile and Earned Value Management Bibliography of papers, books, and thesis (#Biblio). Those lessons are directly transferable to the management of software development teams.

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Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp.

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Wrike

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Agile Project Management. Project Management Software & Tools. 19% say Agile techniques. Agile Project Management. 38% of organizations report using agile frequently. [6]. 75% of highly agile organizations met their goals/business intent, 65% finished on time, and 67% finished within budget. Other – 6%.

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2015 Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 60

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. When I left for the airport this morning to catch my flight to a customer site I estimated, given the conditions, how much time I need to get to my favorite parking spot at DIA. So when you hear we can't estimate you'll know better.

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Herding Cats

APRIL 4, 2019

So here are some books, handbooks, and guides that sit on my shelf that are used pretty much all the time on the Software Intensive System of Systems we work on. But when some statement is made about risk, estimating, performance modeling, or the like - always ask for references. I'm not expecting anyone to read all these books.

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Herding Cats

OCTOBER 20, 2017

For software development systems like Kanban, which is production line-centric, Litle's Law tells us. λ = average production rate of complete software components. λ = average production rate of complete software components. There are two fundamental assumptions for Little's Law to work in the software development domain".

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Herding Cats

JUNE 21, 2016

Here's another trail being ridden by our son at Nationals in 2013. The notion of Control is missed used in software development projects. They have to be estimated in the start. The naive term in agile of respond to emerging requirements means you have to have a plan to meet that emerging requirement.

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Workzone

AUGUST 4, 2021

Trello is a weak option for project managers concerned with estimates, budgets, and dependencies. Jira is the flagship product of Australian software developer Atlassian’s. Jira can create great reports for both roadmapping and agile project management. Most teams need more user-friendly software. user/month.

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MPUG

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

And now, and in 2013 and up versions of Microsoft Project, you actually have a reporting module included within the Microsoft Project tool. And to be honest, I haven’t used it since 2013. And please take note that we have resources in here, we have estimated work, we have duration, we have some completed tasks.

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Herding Cats

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Estimation is part of project management. . The most important estimates for the project manager are related to time and cost. . Since it is easier to estimate small tasks, these estimates are often calculated and performed as point estimates, for example, a task will take 3 days. My proposal is don't estimate.

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